Cardinal Day At The Office

J told me I looked like a dork as I left the office.. What? It's Cardinal Day..I can't help it that my only Cardinal shirt was purchased at the grocery store. When I actually GO to a game, I wear red. I can't begin to count the number of red shirts I have.

I love that about Cardinal fans. We almost always wear Cardinal attire or red to a game. If you look at a group of people...let's pretend 4 people go to a game together, at least one of them is decked out..and that is cool!

We are having hotdogs, nachos, soda, licorice (?), crackerjacks and potato salad..I think they had cake too. My wish would be that at 11am they would say.. "hey we are shutting down for the day and everyone is going to the game..here is $50 for walking around money".. wouldn't that be fun..either that or they breakout a half barrel under the receptionist desk. That ain't happenin.
Boy I could really sell some stuff if I was tanked..that would be kinda funny...

American Idol - Neil Diamond night

One of my favorite American Idol recap blogs is High Lord Dave...
This is what I wrote as a comment to him right after the show last night:

As always..love your AI recap. I disagree w/ your take of the show tonight..I know can you believe it? I'll boil it down to what I did like: David C: Both songs I thought were great and I hope he performs one of them on tour. Brooke: I am I saidSyesha: I thought she did a good job on both, she shouldn't go home on those unlike what Simon said.Jason: Forever In Blue Jean..It's one of my all time favorite ND songs and I will download this version from iTunes.Who I hated: BOTH of David A's songs..you do NOT mess w/ Sweet Caroline..that was repulsive.Paula..WTF? she was was lost..and she mentioned that during Idol Gives Back they did a thing w/ the celebrities dancing to I'm a Beliver and lip synching..so she didn't think that was a good move for Brooke.Bottom Two should be: Jason and David A w/ David A going home.Bottom Two will be: Syesha and Jason w/ Jason going home.

As soon as we watch the show J and I also go to www.dialidol.com and check out the predicitons. This is the first week that David A is not predicted to be safe. I think it's time for that boy wonder to go home. But the judges are really pushing for an all David final 2... I almost puked when Randy told him that version of Sweet Caroline was "da bomb"...please...I couldn't WAIT for it to be over. Just sing the fricking melody already.

So we will see tonight what happens.

Eyeball Update

Well, we all know I'm weird, right?
Well the doctor seems to think that I'm ultra-sensitive when my prescription varies even a little bit. He said most people wouldn't have noticed the slight difference... BUT the main thing is that I now have Adies (spelling fixes..sounds like aid ies) in both eyes.
If you have never heard of it you can read about it HERE.
It's a disease that they don't know anything about. They don't know why you get it..how you get it or how to cure it. I have dilated pupils ALL the time. I'm sensitive to light...and it made me go from 20/20 to being nearsighted. There is no treatment but to treat the symptoms.
The doctors all get a little excited, since they don't see it very often. AND now I'm part of the 10-12% that have it in both eyes.. Yeah Me!

So I'll live..and no Grandy..no patch...I know you were hoping.

OK..King Jack wants to play and American Idol starts soon.. Yeah Neil Diamond!

Rock the Vote

You remember that hummingbird photo? I think everyone liked it..right?
Well just click HERE and then scroll to MP and vote for me.
Now here is the kicker, Lisa and Jean also entered....and they come visit me. They have VERY nice photos in there too..but they really aren't moving birds.. WHAT? I never won a contest before.

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Thank you all for voting.. I have no chance in hell..there are some uber popular people out there w/ something like 17 votes already...I've don't think 17 different people have commented on my blog in any given day...but vote often (kidding you can only vote once..I tried...) and thank you
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What else is going on.. My eye..the right one actually. It is very blurry..and it's kinda scary. Last night we were in Sonic drive thru and I was looking at the Home Depot behind me..closing my left eye to just look with my right..and if I didn't know the big orange letters said lumber..I wouldn't have a clue. SO I'm taking mom and dad to the eye doc today anyway and they are going to squeeze me in. I just had my eyes tested and got these glasses about 6-7 months ago..so I figured this was above and beyond the glasses store doctor..I'm going to the guy that diagosed my Adies.. and did my dad's surgery. Wish me luck, I'm a little nervous.

The new look

Well Ms Pumpkin created a few different headers..this is the one that I'll keep for a while. I LOVE it..
I would have no clue how to do the cute little mosaics around my buddy Jack.. She has a new look on her blog too.. quite the artist she is!

Cleaning House

I HATE to clean, I mean that is what my husband is for isn't it? Well he did yard work today and I started organizing the basement..it will be a major chore, it's just totally gotten out of hand. My problem is I buy clothes but don't get rid of the old ones. It is like I have a sentimental attachement to them. Today I put in the bag the Delta Tau Delta sweatshirt from college and the Eddie Bauer stretched out green sweatshirt... 6 bags packed up so far..

My friend Pumpkin is going to design me a new header..I started to give her comments then she advised me :"Hey hunny, I like what you've done but please bear in mind that, that particular header was just to check colour and so on. However what I will do is send the options to your email and you can choose . The header you have was just to check colour saturation and if it's ok, i've got another couple of ideas that are WAY different."

SO..I'm not going to tweak again until the master has told me that she is finished
:-)

The draft was today..Ram's had the 2nd pick and got Chris Long. He's Howie's son. Kinda hot huh? Makes me keep watching football I'll tell you that much.

Happy Saturday Night :-)

Aruba Spring 2008

Aruba Spring 2008
Originally uploaded by mpkillmer

Can you tell I'm missing Aruba already?

I've been cleaning the basement..twittering..surfing the internet..It's a Saturday with no real responsibilities..LOVE IT!

Header Under Construction

Good morning folks, Pumpkin here.

Just wanted to let you know that the lovely Mp has asked me to see if I can come up with a wee header for her, so over the next day or so, you may see a couple of different ones. Please feel free to howl in protest at any you particularly don't like.

As for the header that's here at the moment, it's just a tester to get the feel of the blog colour-wise...it's not staying, don't worry.

Well I wish you all a fabulous weekend.
xxxx

Ps Mp hunny, if you want to change your header back to your flicker photos for the moment, feel free,

ME..

mp before braces - I look like a boy
Originally uploaded by mpkillmer

This is me, did I ever show you this?
Why did my mom give me that hairdo...UGGGG

Rimmy is on Twitter now..are you?

storming friday

storm coming
Originally uploaded by mpkillmer

This is the view from my backyard..it came fast and furious. Temp dropped from 80 to 55...brrrr

Poor Drewby was flying to KC w/ my MIL. Their plane sat on the runway for an hour, it couldn't leave. I hope he didn't get too antsy for Grandma.

A MEME and other stuff

I had a blog written..all I had to do was type it and hit post....I lost it. It was SO funny and entertaining...well written too without alot of spelling errors or .....
But then I woke up.

• Amy Winehouse was arrested




• Giraffe's don't have vocal chords




• I'm addicted to twitter




• my fricking ankle hurts, I lost range of motion and I don't know why




• i have a bottomless pit of a stomach today




• it's going to storm like a big dog




• we had another aftershock but I didn't feel it




• i got a new cell phone, it's a razor and I like it




• this is the place we are going to in hilton head




• we are SO slow at work I want to nap




• i had a dream about tony danozzo from ncis the other day




• no drewby this weekend..first time since we got back from aruba




• drewby is going to kc w/ my mil..they are flying..did I mention the storm?




• last night..drew's little sister sat on my lap and called me BB :-) This is a pic of her and her daddy..she is a fricking riot..little piggy tails and a black eye yesterday..what a handful




• did i ever mention how much i love OTHER people's kids?

And now on to the meme.. I didn't get tagged..I'm one of those people that volunteer for a meme.

THE RULES (I don't feel like typing or c&p)

Relationship Satus

Current Mood

Favorite Singer / Band

Favorite Movie



Where Do you live?




Where do you work?


(NO I'M NOT A COP SILLY)

What do you look like??



NO I DO NOT HAVE A BIG NECK

What do you drive?


Favorite TV Show.. (NOT A FAIR QUESTION)



Describe Yourself



What are you doing today??



What did you do last night?


What is your name??





OK..now everyone else do this MEME..
(Halfway through it I realized you could click on the image in photobucket and get the url DUH>>>)

The Joys of Eldery Parents and other ramblings

OK...

First things first. My friend Grady gave me some bling today...Ain't it purty? I feel so special!

Next..this is fun. It's a Birthday Calculator!! There are 200 day's until my next birthday.

And now the reason for my pounding headache..my parents. They are cuter than anything but sometimes I think there goal in life is to drive me nuts. My mother is a blog post all by itself. Right now it boils down to this: The woman NEEDS to go to a real doctor to be diagnosed for whatever is going on and get treatment. Either for the symptoms or cause..something. She will not. What she WILL do is complain, self diagnose and self medicate...and then continue to complain. Oy Vay. Today though we will talk about dad. Dad is a very frugal person, he always will be. He grew up during the depression and knows how to pinch a penny better than anyone. He will wear the same shirt until it literally falls apart. He doesn't care about his appearance or what other people thing. His own family would give him trouble about his "cheese cloth" T-Shirts that he wears that are dated 1983 Moonlight Ramble. Today I had to take dad to the foot doctor. He has been getting very painful corns on the bottom of his feet. His doctor shaved the corn last week and today we went to get him fit for orthotics. The key thing ends up he was wearing the wrong sized shoe. The man was wearing size 8's and he should have been wearing a 9 1/2. He acted as though we were on a shopping expedition ..he says, "I already have too many pair of shoes"..to which I reply "but they are the wrong size, they won't fit you".. to which he replies "I haven't' even wore some of them".. (cause the other ones haven't totally fallen apart yet).

DEEEPPP BREATH.... After over an hour of this back and forth..it STILL didn't get through to him. I have to call mom and explain so maybe she can explain better to him. He needs to donate those shoes to good will and move on. Basically he will now have 1 pair of shoes. He wonders why he falls. He thought the office was ugly and was pissed that they wouldn't accept Medicare. Medicare only accepts the claim if the patient has diabetes. Dad doesn't. He made me promise to visit him in the poor house.

ANOTHER DEEEEPPP BREATH..

In reality TV news..did you see Carly get the boot last night? Wow..I didn't expect that. I am totally psyched for Neil Diamond night.

In fun news we are going to Hilton Head in July. My MIL and her sisters have rented a house by the beach. We're driving. It will take 13 hours.

Well back to work..Drew has a soccer game tonight..if it stops raining.

24 hours of fame

I think for almost 24 straight hours I felt a little famous!!

I had 188 people look at my blog yesterday..122 the day before. And I looked...it ws due to direct links from bloggers cooler than me that had my link on their blog...including Bossy.

Normally I have about 30..12-24 returning vistors and the rest just fell here looking for wierd things on google searches.

Well that was alot of fun!! Speaking of fun..I am sleepy today cause I was up last night playing w/ the damn Twitter thing. Does anyone know how to make twitter tweet an automatic thing when I update my blog? I see where wordpress has a widget thing but there isn't one for blogger..and what I did find had that openid thing..which said they couldn't FIND my blog..and then I gave 9 gallons of blood and my kidney to set up an open id account and I realize.. WTF was that for?? It didn't do anything for me? 3 hours I think I messed around on the computer trying to figure that stuff out.
THEN I had to watch NCIS.. Cause come on.. Mark Harmon... hmmmm ssssiiiggghhhh
I have to record it cause we watch American Idol together.. I think my girl Brooke may be leaving tonight...live TV you really can't do, "Oh..I'm sorry, can we start that over please?"...

I'm tired..I wore my old glasses, even though it's the same script..my focusing is out of wack. I blame ALL of this on BRI.. and the Twitter thing. ... cause I can.

Photo Contest

*** You can click on the photo to get the entire picture***

There is a photo contest at arewethereyetmom . Above is my submission. I love my little Aruban Hummingbird ...

Get over there and submit something..and yes I'm talking to you Bri...Connie..and anyone else. You can win a book on photography..for me that would be a great place to start!

Cake in our break room

I think the cake decorator at the grocery store would benefit from a new cake decorating spell check..somebody work on that.

Internet Rights...

Can I go out there to bestbuys.com and start selling electronics???

Can I open a store called Hallmarks and sell greeting cards????

How about call myself Jennifer Annistons and join the screen actors guild??

The answer to all of those should be a resounding NO..
So why is this even an issue?

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And here is the REST OF THE STORY
As Paul Harvey would say...

FUNNY AWESOME STUFF

What is the fuss about? Well if you go to my sidebar you will see that I have updated my reading list..that is amost everyone that I read on a daily basis..I think. If someone is missing please hollar... Either I forgot or I don't like you..
If I were you I would click on all of them and see for yourself!


You want to read something awesome..one of those posts that you wish you could publish for them cause it has everything? Read this...

Recap Yet Again??

Are you sick and tired of updates on our Sunday night out with Bossy?
Well if you are then don't go here...
Bossy did her recap today..
She seems to be doing a bit of zig sagging. I would be pooped if I were her.

Nothing else really exciting is going on here...except Bri sat on me and forced me to start using Twitter.. Oh my GAWHD it's like internet crack. I knew it would be. My twitter tweet thingy is on the right sidebar under "what you are saying"... I'm following a billion people and like 7 are following me.. Well really, what do I have to say.

No Earthquake last night...Just in case you want to know what to do and not to do during an Earthquake you can take this QUIZ.

Tonight is American Idol. I LOVE Andrew Lloyd Weber....but what the heck are these people going to sing? Some of those songs are just WAY to big for the contestants. Brooke and Jason..two of my fav's are just not big singers...I mean I can't picture Brooke doing "Don't Cry for Me Argentina".. We shall see.

I love the dvr..we have to run to Best Buy tonight..we'll get home then speed through the commercials. I don't trust Dial Idol anymore though. Last week they said Kristi Lee was safe, and she wasn't. I didn't want her to be but the thought of Brooke going home gave me heart palpitations.

WHY am I going to Best Buy? Well we are getting a new stereo installed in the Jeep! Yeah! The CD player didn't work, AM didn't work (and I love Frank OPionion for my drive home)
They are also going to install the XM Radio correctly..I had it gerryrigged..

Spring Showers today..and the lawn mower is busted..we have our own botanical garden in our backyard! Sweet..we'll if the new battery doesn't get here soon we're going to have to start charging admission.

Bossy Adventure Continued....

OK..
A little more in detail.
Bri and I arrived first, we had talked on the phone a couple times during the day about the name tags..which I was insistant on..and I must say Bossy loved...
We started the evening with 2 martinis..shown in last nights post. Bri is awesome..and looks a bit like a mix of Keira Knightly and Natalie Portman.
I had to crack up cause the minute we were servered our martini's both Bri and I break out the camera's to take a picture of them...like that was totally the most normal thing to do!
Bri LOOKS like she is 23..but she isn't. I was very surprised she had passed the 30 mark. That's some good genes..

Go figure..Bri ended up going to high school with Julie. They didn't know each other from their small So Ill town but knew a bunch of the same people. Julie is with child..she doesn't blog much but maybe we'll change that... :-)

Not long after Bri and I got to the bar Georgia/Bossy arrived with her host and the hosts's snarky sister.
Bossy's host doesn't post her pics..she prefers to remain unknown.. Heather thought she could just wear a bag over her head like the unknown comic on the Gong Show.. LOL...
Heather cracks me up cause she is so unassuming..yet the quick dry comments that come out of her mouth would make you pee your pants...
Bossy w/ her Stretch Armstrong arms did get an awesome group picture which I'm hoping that she will post on her blog.

I need to get the entire list of people that were there..WOBL.. Wise Old Black Lady. Doesn't that crack you up. Raquita sat across from me...she has the quick whit..and AWESOME camera and is very big in the new St Louis blogging community..

Kelly and her daughter came. Talk about beautiful..aka Vanessa Willimas. Kelly got to get on her soap box a couple times..and talk about to the point..she is in the education field but IMO should be in politics..unlike me who gets bored when I'm talking to myself..this woman can keep your attention, educate and entertain you..her blog is fun too.

Sonrie.. I don't think I'm supposed to post her real name.. was there too but I didn't really get to talk to her.
I think if I had any complaints at all on the evening it would be that there were too many people. There were always 4 or 5 converstations going on at once and I didn't want to miss out on any of them. There were thinkgs I would have liked to have asked Bossy/Georgia.. I think I had a list in my head but there was just so much going on.

There was one other girl there but I've never visited her blog..and man was she cute and funny.. Bri is going to send me the link.
I GOT IT...I saw the link from my stat thingy... Miss Fluid Pudding!!


Twitter..should I or shouldn't I?
I'm afraid if I twit and tweet I wouldn't blog...
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OK I'm tweeting..and twittering and Jean sent me a message but I can't figure out how to respond cause there is nothing in the drop down...
How do I know if there are other people I want to follow that I don't have their email addresses..?? I guess I'll figure it out.

The Great Bossy Adventure

I'm HOME!! We had a great time. There were around 11 of us that got together at The Chocolate Bar. Martini's, Mohito's, Cheese Platters, Desserts..and LOTS of conversation. We must have talked about everything ..pumping, blowjobs (in referernce to the Clinton's), The Fonz (my Clinton story), the public education system in our country..especially St Louis, Georgia's middle name..the special guest blogger at Bossy's tomorrow...the Saturns...how great of a gathering we had...how funky the music was (Bluegrass versions of Prince Classics..and Johnny Cash singing Tom Petty..)

Here are a few pictures...Georgia you know..MP and Bri.. Raquita, Heather and Georgia..I have more..

Georgia's gracious host has an awesome food blog..I won't show her picture but I must tell you I allowed her to lick me..cause I'm a republican too..Oh yes..there were two of us..but of course I respect the Barak O'Boyfriend since he more than likely going to be our next pres..but I digress..

A great time was had by all.. I will give linky love tomorrow!!